Word: ruthlessness
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...portrait of New York's master planner Robert Moses, a ruthless visionary who built toward a city of the future and found that power corrupts and so does the internal-combustion engine...
...certainly worthwhile for journalists to think about the news, and there's nothing wrong with trying to relate daily events to more long-range, underlying trends, using philosophy to illustrate the news of the day, or even--as another aspiring journalist, Karl Marx, once suggested--undertaking a ruthless criticism of everything existing. But all these things involve an attempt to learn from and about the news of the day and to report on it--not an imparting of wisdom from Olympian heights to those mired in the news's reality. The inadequacy of Lippmann's call for making journalism...
Whatever its outcome, the Bell suit will surely set the stage for a renewed debate about the proper aims of modern antitrust policy. Not even the Justice Department accuses A T & T of behaving in the ruthless style of the freewheeling monopolies that were broken up under the Sherman Act 60 years ago. As the lingering notion that "bigness is badness" has faded, the nation has tolerated increasing concentration in many industries. The question that overlies virtually every antitrust effort today is how to weigh the admitted advantages of competition against the economics of scale in any given field. Businessmen...
Cincinnati I can never quite consider as a "hero" any man who accepted a German decoration from Hermann Göring, Hitler's ruthless crony. The true heroes were the boys who died fighting the Nazi beasts and never received publicity or parades. To me Charles Lindbergh will never typify a hero...
...anyone foolish enough to disagree, he first applied pure charm. If that failed, he fell back on the ruthless use of power assiduously accumulated throughout his career. When he was up against a man who ranked him, the succession of Governors and mayors he ostensibly worked for, he simply and repeatedly threatened to resign if he did not get his way. Whether these politicians liked or hated Moses, they simply could not do without a man who got so much done...